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Why does it matter what you find offensive though? What you're saying sounds like an excellent reason for you personally not to visit wallstreetbets, it doesn't sound like any kind of reason at all for the community to be curtailed, censored, or banned.

As an example, I grew up in a very religious home. My family would find things like cursing, taking the Lord's name in vain, or advocating for atheism to be very offensive. And yet, I hope it is very easy for you to understand that it would be wrong to take what my religious family finds offensive and apply those ethical rules to other people. Jehovah's Witnesses think birthdays and holidays are offensive, Muslims think graven images are offensive, etc etc. All sorts of people believe all sorts of things. Every group of people is not obliged to not be offensive to every other group of people.

You may be inclined to say that people can choose not to be religious but have no say over things like mental type or race. I don't think that's true because the majority of religious people are in the same religion as their parents, implying there isn't much free choice involved. Even if that were true, why is something you believe less respected than something that you are?
This is why I try to stay with small companies. You can always get a real human on the phone and more often than not, the person understands the system they are working in and can fix problems themselves. Our last ISP was wonderful to call, you got direct answer and it was a real tech that answered, not a callcenter reading from a script.
Thank you! We've not yet made a final decision about pricing yet, the first priority is to make it as reliable as we can and support multiple OS. However, there will very likely be some kind of free tier, similar to Slack and Zoom.
Maybe, but companies do have choices and don't need to blindly maximize profit.
I will add that I observed sites like stocktwits/webull this last year, the fraud that takes place there was so painful to watch that I just pulled out of the market completely. Literal trash information is used to justify a new pump and dump every day and it was disgusting how the SEC did nothing (To their friends) before.
It's intended as endearing self-deprecating humour.
Per-minute charging prevents people with crappy cars (PHEV, older EV) from hogging HVDC charging locations. They'll do it once, see the bill and never do it again.

Basically if your PHEV can only take in like 15kW from a charger it's not cost-effective to charge from a HVDC charger that costs 80 cents a minute. But if your car can get 300kW from the same charger, it becomes useful again.
The Discord ban was clearly because the community itself is controversial from a legal point of view. That's why the ban happened today. But I think this is an unwise move. Each community that is censored over something legal but controversial, pushes the creative citizens of the Internet towards building more open platforms.

Hope we end up there soon, this constant censorship of communities I might want to have a look at to satisfy my curiosity gets mighty tiring.
100 million MAUs can't be cheap to maintain. You're probably getting downvoted because revenue != profit.
I agree, OO can be useful and this article doesn't add much to the conversation of when stateful objects and inheritance are the best choice vs. functions and composition vs. some hybrid.

That said, please consider the community guidelines:

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."
This guy remembers me about the golden rule in product management: If a lot of customers complain about something, they are almost always right. If they tell you how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. Outdoor toilet? OMG, please!

It annoys me to no end that with the current environmental catastrophes, almost nobody approaches this with a quantitative engineering mindset, especially the ones who care most: Progressives (of which I consider myself one).

It‘s mindblowing how I can‘t buy a plastic wrapped cucumber in the organic shop even though it reduces waste from damage by 30%.

In a country where we recycle or cleanly incinerate 99% of plastic.

When 70% of the oceans‘ plastic comes from 4 rivers, none of them in Europe.

And they feel great about it, as if they‘re actually doing something.

Repeat after me: Large scale change will not come from individualized action. It just doesn‘t scale. The only working solution is to make the ecological choice economical.

The first way is the Elon Musk way. Just make the alternative better than the original. Best, but needs an extremely long breath with flawless vision and execution.

The second is large scale regulation. As much as I hate a lot about the EU bureaucracy, they did exactly the right things with incandescent lamps. Flat out banned them over a period of 10 years.

The same people who whined in the beginning about how mean the state is towards their free choice are now sitting in LED illuminated rooms with lower watts, better long life and almost equal CRI. All catalyzed by a removal of alternatives on the horizon.

I believe the just started CO2 tax can do the same.
Scrap metal merchants. They buy scrap cars, girders from old buildings, household metal waste, manufacturing offcuts, and any other waste metal. They sell it on to a steelworks.

They usually weigh your truck, unload it, weigh it again and pay you the difference. They often won't see what they're buying, as long as it's magnetic.
It seems to me that you're conflating two unrelated things. Yes, I agree -- there are perfectly legitimate reasons to implement module level functions instead of class and instance methods; but avoiding typing four extra characters just to be more like some other arbitrary language is not one of them.

Python has a different "philosophy" than "C++ et al". Literally everything is an object, and everything has attributes; some of those attributes are objects that implement the Callable protocol. And it's a syntactic sugar that some of those callables are implicitly passed certain predefined arguments; the default is passing the instance of the object itself. The exact same thing could have been implemented without it, like this:

foo.some_callable_attribute(foo, another_argument)

Since methods are usually called more often than they are declared, it makes sense to make this first argument the default.
I'd love to use this on my working Kindle. Is that possible? Basically, replace the "screensaver" program with this dashboard?
one would assume they controlled for this. Its a scientific study.

But then I've just finished reading the thread about scientific misconduct.... Not sure what to trust anymore
> Grow up.

But they are immature shit-for-brains , by their own admission.

The question is why being such a person is considered unacceptable or illegal.
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I'm slightly sceptical, because with open standards you still need to do moderation somehow. The WSB are complaining that Reddit didn't give them the mod tools they need.

I believe we're going to see fragmentation in platforms rather than open standards. And I say that because we've just launched our own reddit alternative, Retalk.com. It's also moderated, but by different standards.
Both examples are OO. OO with and without syntactic sugar for methods of course, but both are 100% OO regardless. The implicit instance argument had just been replaced by an explicit instance argument.

Programming paradigms have nothing to do with syntactic sugar.
> We shouldn't take anyone seriously who promulgates a license but won't use it themselves in an inbound=outbound way.

I would just treat them as proprietary. With access to code and opened gate to provide also code, if you are paying someone and they still do not care about your bug.

What may be better than fully proprietary and unavailable source.

I would not dismiss for example Windows just because they are not open source.
> In essence, Discord's staff enforces a hidden layer of moderation behind the scenes. They contact server owners in private and point out individual members' faults and list exact words that are to be removed. In this way, server admins are encouraged to overmoderate due to the obvious imbalance (risk of losing an entire server vs losing a few users), yet they have to take flak from individual users.

This only applies to partnered and/or verified guilds. All other guilds are only checked on user complaints and otherwise unmoderated (bar the explicit content filter, that applies at the gateway level, before the event gets propagated) by Discord staff.
That sounds fascinating. Can't wait for you to finish that. I also live in Pretoria. You know we have the national library here, which I've never visited, but I'm interested in SA history. Cheers, Paul
Truly "free" competitors financed by VC that will certainly not lean on them the moment one of their financial buddies starts loosing money to people talking on their "free" platforms? I don't see it. And in the current market I don't see where else the money should come from.
I don't mean that comment to be snarky or sneering and I apologize if it came off as unkind. What I mean to convey with that comment is that clearly you believe there are acceptable uses of the word. In other words, you don't think that every use of the word should be prohibited.

Once we've reached that point it seems like a negotiation. Why would it be wrong to say sometimes and not wrong other times? My intuition here is that this is tied to whether the word is used with intent to offend or harass someone. In your case, you weren't using the word that way, and I would argue that the same applies largely to uses of the term on wallstreetbets.
That's funny when your username
is dork
which was a pejorative word not a long ago
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle4NTHacking and the mobileread forums have a wealth of information on this topic!
That's cool.

I've build a similar thing for my kindle.

https://github.com/makepanic/eink-weather

It is a simple website, which a headless chrome screenshots to use with the online screensaver app.

A browser might be overkill but I wanted to avoid manual layouting.
No? The insult is to the person you say "was your mother frequently drunk while pregnant with you", not everyone else who might fit that particular profile.

If what you're saying would be true, then calling someone an idiot would be an insult to all the idiots out there. They are clearly not the target of the insult, the person you say it to is the insulted.
If it's not exactly the same, it's very similar. It's a slur, used by members outside a group, defined by birth, to insult them and discriminate against them.
> Couldn't you just load the first frame of the video

No, often it's black. You have to do scene-detection if you want meaningful previews/thumbnails, can't always go random about it.

And the original files are stored in HDD and not SSD/RAM.

Source: I don't work there.
I'd also really like to just be able to interact with a keyboard like other apps i.e. receive keyup events, reading multiple keys at once etc. Kitty has something like that but popular libraries don't support it. I've had many ideas for terminals games and apps but didn't continue because of these limitations.
Their place, their rules. I see the continuing belief you can do anything on somebody’s else turf. Wallstreet bets could pretty much move to 4chan if they value their 4chan behavior this greatly.
There is a large and growing demand for both clean energy and climate solutions. Because climate change is an unavoidable physical fact, that demand is likely to grow. It is already not free to externalize the cost of carbon, and a great deal of money and engineering talent will be needed for adaptation in the coming decades. It’s also not likely to remain cost-free to externalize the cost of carbon either. And even in the event of a breakthrough technology like nuclear fusion, there’s still the task of decarbonizing infrastructure and electrifying everything. All of this will need software. All of this will require a staggeringly large deployment of capital. And you would think that with so many smart people here, more of them would want a piece of that!
You missed all those wildfires then?
Words change meaning over time. They do not flip over in an instant.

What I believe we're seeing is a society-wide disagreement on the connotations of the word. It will shake itself out, one way or another - but this process used to take decades and was barely noticeable. Now it takes months to years, which is catching people by surprise.

Also: the flip side of "words change meaning" is that, during a period of change, you'll encounter people using a different meaning than you. The arguments favoring the updated weight of the word we're discussing here seem frequently of the form, "$word truly means $my-meaning; surely you do not really believe it means $your-meaning, you're just pretending, and in reality you're just a hateful person who hates $me and $mine" - which is essentially twisting logic and sanity into a pretzel.

(For better or worse, I expect the "revisionists" to win over "conservatives" here, now that the updated connotations have institutional backing of big social media companies, in form of the ban policies.)
Is this going to be a one true Scotsman type defence of Communism? Happy for you to identify a nation state that has communism without central planning.
It should all be banned because its a pyramid scheme and a scam. A concept that would only work in a video game. They had 100 years and the economy is still a scam. You literally can not just wake up and invest in some industry you like. 95% is snake oil and the other 5% volatile due to manipulation. Somebody should find the amount of tickers issued, meaning every company that ever appeared on the stock market, then how many of these companies made it to dividend (the entire point of investing).
Yes! They’re called climatebase now, and I landed at my current job through them. Very smart folks running that organization, highly recommended!
Sorry, you don't understand how comment threads work. They are structured like a tree so people can fork off a part of the conversation (if self contained) and discuss that. I chose to discuss the premise that being in the dictionary makes something ok. If I am discerning the premise wrong, or if its not self contained you can point out the connection with the rest of the context.
I've been plenty productive in C, as are a multitude of people who would pick type safety over the lack of it.
I think it depends. Certainly it could be used in a way that conveys racist positions and it could be used in a way that doesn't. Is someone singing along to a rap song a racist? Kids being edgy?

I am not saying though that I think use of the term is okay, only that I don't think it should be prohibited either by law or by the pressure of big companies punishing people who say what is forbidden for them to say. I'm perfectly happy with people who make the judgement that they may never say certain words. I'm not happy with people telling others what they can or cannot say.
The Epic Game Stop Trade Lawsuit of 2021
This case and the results of the litigation are set to become a historical benchmark between at least 3 "Goliaths" of the financial industry and thousands of "Davids"who are smaller retail traders. Already, as this story is being written huge entrenched financial institutions have have instructed their attorneys to file suit in a brazen attempt to recover their losses resulting from whom they will allege is a rogue group of smaller retail conspirators on subreddit known as wallstreetbets (WSB's). The looses of the huge entrenched financial institutions are estimated to be at least $2.5 Billion, and even if the legal costs are in the range of $100 million dollars, which in fact is only ~ 4% the estimated looses.
The reddit website owners/moderators will be served with a motion(s) for discovery to pony up and reveal the identities and ip addresses of all participants in the forum during the dates in question, and all major brokerages will be served with subpeonas to reveal anyone whom profited from the Game Stop trade to the tune of $10,000 or more.
It is expected the drama will unfold in the typical manner, with written civil depositions, progress to oral depositions, and then on to trial (written deps are typically used first in an attempt to establish the facts, then oral deps are employed afterwards in an attempt to confuse and "trip up" the deposed party). A record is preserved and maintained and submitted to the court before any trial with arguments to attempt to show misstatements and "trip ups" of the deposed parties. The result of this EPIC trial will determine and further establish/define the power dynamics of the ongoing class struggle beween an ever growing class of smaller retail traders and a few entrenched hedge funs and institutionals. Suspicions are rising that government institutions may step in with new legislation or rulings that will be regarded as unduly favoring one side or the other, potentially resulting in further litigation.
Parler didn't go down because it's impossible to host platforms without getting taken down. Parler got taken down because they went with hosting providers who have proven time and time again they are not independent platform providers who just follow the law, they are platform providers with opinions that will act on their opinions if they feel like it in the morning.

If Parler wanted, they could have gone a different route and survived without any issues.
There is nothing preventing an open standard moderation tag that each user selects how to treat.

With such moderation tagging in place, for example, if I wanted to use Reddit but mistrust moderators, with an open treatment of data, I would be able to select to ignore their rating/per entry and use ratings by a group of users I select. (impossible to imagine Reddit doing something like this)

However, it requires I have access to core data. Today, the superusers or platform admins can prevent "controversial" entries from even being visible on the platform/subplatform/subreddit.
The "don't hate the player hate the game" approach only works if the player has no influence on the game.

Corporations and politics are not two separate entity that act independently.
Downtime () to replace hard drives and get the hell over in a rental Mazda
It's not later years per se but level of health which is adjusted for.

We tend to think of this in terms of whether we should extend life with poor years or not but if you think about treatments or devices which won't extend life but might well have a dramatic effect on level of health, mobility etc during those years then it becomes clearer why this is an important consideration. I think most people would say that in a resource constrained world there still ought to be room to fund those things.
thanks a lot! it makes a lot of sense, I just don't know anything about the day to day business of e-commerce to be able to figure that out.
Thanks for your interesting reply and I’m glad that we’re both working towards scientific literacy in our own ways.
I agree with what you say. If you look atthe parent comments, they both go to extremes to make a point. A big problem when it comes to discussion, is coming in with an attitude that your view is “right” and soapboxing it to the world. In any discussion their should be room for shades of grey and the respect to listen to different and (in your eyes) descending views.

How you communicate is just as important as what you wish to communicate.
>> Of course every platform has the right to dictate users of their platform yada yada...

People who claim that should logically be wanting Rosa Parks to have started her own bus company.
> I can't wait the EU to force some standardized interop charging scheme designed by committee

coughCCScough

The whole plug was basically invented to not exclude existing Type 2 connectors. It's good, but not as good as the Tesla proprietary one.

But the ship has sailed, CSS is the EU standard now and ChaDeMo is being phased out slowly.
The price of insulin (clearly not a new drug)

This is a misconception. There are dozens of different drugs people refer to as Insulin, some new insulin analogs are better, and expensive. You can still get old synthetic formulations very cheaply. Walmart famously sells them for $25.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/311300#drugs-for-t...
Well, both things are compatible.
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This thread seems half full of people downvoting who seem like they'd also be the ones to coddle those irrationally offended by people who will continue to use the words master-slave in computer contexts.
Just be glad that it didn't go the other way with terminals being full HTML 5 and having to watch advert videos between command invocations.
Show me where that's happening because of climate change. Oh, I know, its gonna happen soon™.

You can sell me doom by showing me. Again I ask, risking asking the wrong question, where's your support for your "estimate" that society will collapse globally by 2030 due to climate change?
Devices having cellular modems isn't something new. Many cars already ship with them, for various purposes. WiFi will likely remain in use with smart TVs for a while as video content is data intensive so not really well suited for cellular, but likely stuff like your dishwasher or your stove might include cellular modems in the near future. The data they transmit is limited and you make setup easier as you don't have to type in a WiFi password any more.
Having Apple stores in every big city doesn't represent a considerable moat for Apple. If you had to go to a computer store every couple of hours to be able to use a computer then your analogy would be more applicable. Apple stores are not infrastructure components. If you own infrastructure you have some responsibility to share it.
Yes that should be possible. You could use this as a starting point: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3812831&pos.... With that you can wait for the 'goingToScreenSaver' event and then write your dashboard to the screen.

There are some minor downsides though. If you keep the built-in Kindle UI running it will draw a menubar on the screen when the Wi-Fi connection status changes and power consumption will be a bit higher with this setup. All in all still a good tradeoff if you want to keep using the Kindle for it's original purpose too.

Edit: someone else posted a link to this tool which does exactly this: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=236104
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You make a compelling point why I shouldn’t care about Wall Street hedge funds, you are right they form financial bubbles, you’re right it harms participants, the economy, and are specifically designed to bankrupt companies.

Unfortunately even if I don’t participate in these games, my tax money is used to bail them out when they lose.
Interesting timing for the ban, I would point out.
I see what you mean. I saw the subreddit with fresh eyes again. Its unnecessary, rude and demeaning to the people with learning disabilities. But I must concede they seem to be using the term to refer to trading. But what confuses me they call everyone the r-word. Who ever makes a trade on the stock market. Even themselves. Don't you see how unnecessary that is?
In my part of the world dealerships are usually in the middle of industrial areas, not exactly places you'd want to visit just to charge your car.

Pretty much all paid parking lots and car parks have chargers though, it's the natural place to have them.
I belive the extensible web manifesto is could give some historical context for low-level web APIs: https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/